ADA GALLERY (R,VA)

ADA GALLERY contemporary fine art gallery. NEW ART. emerging and established artists. Richmond, Virginia. Since 2003

ID SNIPER By Jakob Boeskov exhibiting now in Realität Und Fiktion, May 1 - September 1, at Villa Schoningen - Kunst & Geschichte An Der Glienicker Brucke Berliner Straße 86 , 14467 Potsdam, Germany ‎Http://Www.Villa-Schoeningen.De see Jakob’s drawings at ADA GALLERY

ID SNIPER By Jakob Boeskov exhibiting now in Realität Und Fiktion, May 1 - September 1, at Villa Schoningen - Kunst & Geschichte An Der Glienicker Brucke
Berliner Straße 86 , 14467 Potsdam, Germany ‎Http://Www.Villa-Schoeningen.De

see Jakob’s drawings at ADA GALLERY

THE OTHER BRUCE_N_NIAL*

BRUCE WILHELM HAS SHOWN WITH ADA GALLERY SINCE 2005.. 
WE’VE DONE A LOT OF SHOWS AND ART FAIRS AROUND THE 
COUNTRY IN THOSE YEARS.. (HELL, GLOBE! WE WENT TO 
LONDON & BASEL TOO) ALL THE WHILE AMASSING QUITE 
THE TROVE OF HIDDEN GEMS. SO, BRUCE & ADA HAVE
 BEEN PURGING OUR VAST FOOTBALL SIZED WARE
HOUSES SCATTERED ACROSS THE NATION SEIZ-
ING UPON THE VERY BEST! 
NOW OLD WORKS 
CUDDLE UP NEXT 
TO NEW ONES, IN MANY
 CASES NEW & OLD HAVE JOINED 
TOGETHER LIKE SOME SUPERFRIENDS
 SITUATION. THIS HAS BECOME AN EPIC BATTLE
 OF GOOD VS. AWESOME. THIS IS..
THE OTHER BRUCE_N_NIAL*
WORK BY BRUCE WILHELM : 2005-2013 
OPENS NEXT FRIDAY JUNE 7, 2013. 
ALSO, THIS IS ADA GALLERY’S
 TENTH ANNIVERSARY MONTH : 2003-2013. HOLY MOLY.
*THE BRUCE HIGH QUALITY FOUNDATION HAS APPROVED OUR HOMAGE

http://mulherinpollard.com/Clement_Valla_Erik_Berglin_Iconoclashes.html

ICONOCLASHES

“As is well known from art historians and theologians, many sacred icons that have been celebrated and worshipped are called acheiropoiete; that is, not made by any human hand. Faces of Christ, portraits of the Virgin, Veronica’s Veil; there are many instances of these icons that have fallen from heaven without any intermediary.To show that a humble human painter has made them would be to weaken their force, to sully their origin, to desecrate them.”

-Bruno Latour, What is Iconoclash?, 2002

“Iconoclashes” are a clashing of objects in various time periods, in an assortment of cultures, representing a multiplicity of religions. 

The starting point of these images is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s public web archive; specifically all photographs of objects tagged with the keywords ‘God’ or ‘Religion.’ 

These source images were randomly grouped and digitally merged with a Photomerge script inside Adobe Photoshop. The script is a common algorithm used to stitch separate images together into longer panoramas. In the case of “Iconoclashes,” the script attempts to blend these “God”-tagged images together, creating chimeric deities, hybrid talismans, and surreal stellae, gods and statues.

The “Iconoclashes” appear as a typical cataloging of a museum’s archive. The Met Museum uses standards when photographing their archive- all objects are presented on a generic grey surface, with similar lighting and they all occupy the same percentage of the frame, regardless of scale. The “Iconoclashes” exploit this styling; the photomerge script works only because of this stylistic consistency.  

Yet these are not typical museum images; these are not objects that could ever exist. The images are smooth and photoreal, but the space, the colors and the physics simply don’t add up. Their strangeness is the product of an algorithm rather than a human creator.

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Erik Berglin is a Swedish artist with an MFA from the University of Photography in Gothenburg, Sweden. His practice spans from internventions in urban environments to fact/fictional storytelling about sad characters and forgotten stories to appropriation of images found online. His latest works have been exploring the possibilities to generate images with the help of computer algorithms. His work has been shown widely around Sweden and can be found in the collections of Gothenburg Museum and Hasselblad Center. His was recently published in Art and Theory’s new book about Contemporary Swedish Photography. He lives in New York City.

Clement Valla is an artist, programmer and educator. His artworks explore computer programs, revealing the usually hidden processes, mechanisms and biases embedded in everyday algorithmic systems. He has collaborated with a number of artists, architects, designers, scientists and archaeologists, developing novel uses for digital technologies. His work has been exhibited internationally, shown on BBC television, and recently written about in Time Magazine, the Huffington Post, Wired, boingboing, the Guardian, Liberation, and El Pais. He received a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Digital+Media. He is currently an associate professor of Graphic Design at RISD.

He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

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The “OTHER BRUCE-N-NIAL” , Richmond Va born artist Bruce Wilhelm has shown with ADA since he was an undergrad at VCU in 2005.. We’ve collaborated for quite awhile, and as we’ll be celebrating* our TENTH year (2003-2013) we thought it fitting that Bruce whose been with us so long, attack our storage units & create this EPIC wonderland of past works which in many cases are now becoming new works. The OTHER BRUCE_N_NIAL opens next Friday June 7. 
Birthday Party TBA. http://www.adagallery.com/